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Custodial History note
Preferred Citation note
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Content note
Title: Models of Whitney R. Smith Case Study Houses 5 and 12
Identifier/Call Number: 0000149
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
8.0 Linear feet
(2 models)
Date: circa 1989
creator:
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) .
creator:
Smith, Whitney Rowland, 1911-2002
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Open for use by qualified researchers.
Custodial History note
Gift of the Museum of Contemporary Art, circa 1990.
Preferred Citation note
Models of Whitney R. Smith Case Study Houses 5 and 12, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum;
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
The models that comprise this collection were built for the exhibit “Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the
Case Study Houses” which showed for 5 months (October 1989 to February 1990) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
The exhibit was curated by Elizabeth Smith and entailed full-scale walk-through constructions of original Case Study houses
which were presented together with models, drawings, photographs, and design objects.
Scope and Content note
This collection consists of two models of Case Study Houses 5 and 12, homes designed in 1945 and 1946, respectively, but never
built by Whitney R. Smith.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Smith, Whitney Rowland, 1911-2002
Case Study House No. 12 (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Case Study House No. 5 (Los Angeles, Calif.)